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Currently, women can retire at the age of 50, and men at 55 – ridiculously low by global standards and clearly unsustainable, given China’s rapidly aging population.

In many regions of the world, educational standards fall far short of what is needed.

If banks are regulated at the national level, but do business internationally, national regulatory authorities have a permanent incentive to set lax standards to avoid driving business to other countries and to lure it from them instead.

There are many similar examples from the fields of standards, competition policy, and taxation that are applicable here.

Transforming Science EducationCHICAGO – Throughout the West, declining standards in science education are threatening future prosperity.

And collaboration and exchange of people make for profitable businesses and higher standards of living.

But it must be recognized that falling educational standards will eventually hit economic growth.

But to restore the vitality of science, we need to look at the entire educational system: teachers from pre-school through high school, state and national standards, productive and educationally reinforcing assessments, teaching materials and educational technology, and progress in the neurosciences, cognitive psychology, developmental biology, and nutrition.

Historical experience shows that migration is the fastest way to bring about a convergence in living standards.

The global PRI has arisen through countries’ widespread accession to the World Trade Organization, international accounting and regulatory criteria like the Basel Accords, standards established by the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and some aspects of international law.

As national economies and multinational companies compete for market share, global standards of market behavior become increasingly important.

Today, while some children have returned to the classroom, attendance in many parts of the country remains low, and teaching standards poor, contributing to high dropout rates.

China’s Real Reform ChallengeLONDON – It is often assumed that emerging-economy living standards are bound to converge with those in developed countries.

The Obama administration, for example, cooperated with an arm of the National Association of Manufacturers to launch a manufacturing skills certification system based on standards established by industry groups.

Of course, because China’s population is more than four times larger, its per capita GDP, at $12,900, is still less than a quarter of the $54,700 recorded in the US, which highlights America’s much higher living standards.

And, by boosting the ability of the US and Europe to set global business standards, German firms’ international competitiveness would rise.

Volkswagen managers received huge bonuses this year, despite the global scandal caused by the company’s years-long effort to evade emissions standards.

Above all, there is no immediate international institutional context encouraging steady change and establishing standards and benchmarks: Burma must find its own path.

As difficult as we may find it to condemn individuals who use drugs and surgery to transform themselves in accordance with dominant aesthetic standards, on a social level these procedures compound the problems they are meant to fix.

This situation is paradoxical, as Europe is experiencing one of the worst economic crises in its history, with falling employment and living standards and rising worries about the future.

In Russia's recent parliamentary elections, which were - regardless of various reservations - conducted according to democratic standards, parties advocating political and economic freedom suffered painful defeat, while parties proclaiming hostility to the rule of law and modern pluralist democracy were successful.

Moreover, while China’s nascent consumer-led growth dynamic is impressive by most standards, limited market access has constrained US companies from capturing what they judge to be a fair market share of the potential bonanza.

In short, though emerging economies’ debts seem largely moderate by historic standards, it seems likely that they are being underestimated, perhaps by a large margin.

This would distribute the burden of the Syrian crisis over a larger number of states, while also establishing global standards for dealing with the problems of forced migration more generally.

The operational and financial arrangements developed by the EU should be used to establish global standards for the treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants.

In any new deal, non-tariff barriers and government procurement, two sets of instruments often used for hidden and not-so-hidden protectionism in Latin America, ought to follow common standards.

The White House issued a statement urging the British government to “use its voice to push for adoption of high standards."

In office, he had intervened when the supposedly independent board for setting accounting standards tried to clean up the accounting of senior executives' share options.

We need better standards and stronger laws.

We can try to inculcate better ethical standards.

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